Overseas Students in Higher Education: Issues in Teaching and Learning

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    Educational Research 42 3: Higher Education Research and Development 19 1: Shaheen, N International students at UK universities: International Journal of Lifelong Education 23 4: Using a sample of 14 British teachers, the findings reveal that students from culturally and linguistically diverse traditions are very different in approaching critical thinking tasks, which seems to affect their academic performance adversely. It is recommended that explicit efforts should be made to raise awareness of the need to enable overseas students to acclimatise to the new academic environment.

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    How to ensure quality and at the same time contribute to research and the community was a major theme. However, with the international university rankings season coinciding with the conference, league tables were criticised for distorting university priorities and the Chancellor of California State University, Charles Reed, caused a stir at a plenary session when he described global rankings as "a disease".

    Click here for the full story. Universities have tried to raise revenue, often by attracting overseas students who pay high fees.

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    But it is hard to rely on consistent income when it is so difficult to predict where overseas students will come from as markets mature and die and new ones grow. He suggested the sun was setting on international students from some East Asian countries, it continues to shine on India and China, while sunrise countries such as Chile and the Czech Republic may not yet be visible on the horizon but will be a source of international students in future.

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    Branch campuses, where students can earn a degree from another country without ever going abroad, are another way for institutions to raise revenue. Other revenue earners were mooted, most famously by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology which revealed it was considering putting lecture notes and other academic content behind a paywall to raise revenue, according to Lori Breslow, who runs MIT's teaching and learning laboratory.

    MIT's decision to consider transforming its OpenCourseWare website into a pay-per-view e-learning application was one of the higher profile ideas proposed by a university task force charged with devising a strategic response to the global financial crisis.

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    Open University Press , pp. Shaheen, N International students at UK universities: Kim, H-K Critical thinking, learning and Confucius: It is recommended that explicit efforts should be made to raise awareness of the need to enable overseas students to acclimatise to the new academic environment. Subscribe to this journal. But it is hard to rely on consistent income when it is so difficult to predict where overseas students will come from as markets mature and die and new ones grow.

    While universities in many countries were bemoaning the fact that they have too many students applying for too few places, Brazil has the opposite dilemma - an abundance of university seats but not enough qualified students to fill them.